Again, they are not idiots if they do not immediately understand the ui and all the functions. You are an idiot for thinking that and typing it out.
The UI that this game uses does not exist in modern technology for a reason. Decades of customer service, player feedback and technological improvements render this style obsolete. Even CCP recognizes what you wont, as they try to upgrade to somewhat modern technology.
Even that is outside of the point of this thread. There was No Need to remove the tabs on the toolbar, as the initial gameplay requires you to access various tabs that are now hidden behind 3-4 menus.
I’m super happy for you that you never had any trouble learning an outdated video game.
You know what is fantastically amazing? I have to teach people in rookie chat how to drag and drop to the toolbar. Something I didn’t have to do months ago. It’s an Unnecessary series of steps that the game its self does not teach or even elude to.
As for making things easier somehow being a negative thing, perhaps if you took a look at the number of subscribing players, you’d rethink your position. Even WoW, with all its failures that continue to come out, has a bigger player base.
You ever wonder why the big alliances just sit there doing nothing of any real impact? CCP is losing players even as those few alliances gain players. Eventually, it’ll be the 4 major alliances sitting there stagnant. When I played in '08 i saw an average of about 60k players logged in at any given time. Now, coming back in mid '18, the majority of time it’s around 20k. We all know that the majority of players also have alts logged in, which means it’s actually far less than 20k people online at any given time.
For that reason alone, we’ll never see another massive war again.
The younger people coming into this game are generally putting more into it than you are, and they learn rapidly. They are quality players, and the only hope for the continuation of this game.
They need to be retooled, not simply removed.
“hundreds of thousands” of people needed help to learn the game, just as the current wave of players do. There is a reason the rookie channel exists. You need to remove those rose tinted goggles and recognize how many of those hundreds of thousands of players are even still playing.
As complex as this game can be, it still isn’t enough for the majority of people that come to this game. The reason is simple. There is no objective. There is little game content, and as we progress in time, even less player driven content. The game is stagnant.